The home of TREGOYD CLEVELAND BAYS is set in the beautiful Wye Valley, on the Wales English border near the ‘Book’ town of Hay on Wye, and beneath the northern escarpment of the Black Mountains within the Brecon Beacon National Park. Trenewydd which is the name of our farm, is a small Welsh hill farm and is approached up a steep, narrow country road which leads from the area known as Tregoyd, hence the stud prefix. Much of our land is sloping and we are favoured with steep banks and streams that we find excellent for helping youngstock to balance, tackle problems and learn to cross water.  (continued below) 

Margaret and myself, Colin Green, are retired teachers who are dedicated to the breeding of Pure bred Cleveland Bay horses. Our aims are closely allied to those of the Cleveland Bay Horse Society to help preserve this rare and endangered breed and to improve the quality and widen the influence of Pure bred Cleveland Bays. Also through our promotional activities in connection with the CBHS and the Southern Cleveland Breeders Club, we try to bring about increased awareness of the breed. We are concerned in particular that this great British asset which is still largely unappreciated, becomes recognised for its impressive quality, substance, soundness and sanity and the even greater contribution it could make to British breeding. As you look through the photographs of these Tregoyd Clevelands and read through the brief history, we hope to convince you about the potential of this breed. (continued below)

Tregoyd Cleveland Bays is a closed stud breeding privately for our own pleasure but taking occasional mares for friends. Over the years all of our Cleveland stallions have run with the mares and are covered naturally. This is a policy that has worked very successfully and which shows through the high foaling percentages. As well as breeding pure bred Clevelands we have also bred a number of Cleveland cross Thoroughbred horses in an attempt to draw attention through successful performance to the superb horses which results from crossing. Our Thoroughbred stallion from the Northern Dancer line also demonstrates superbly the crosses resulting from the TB on the ample Cleveland mares.  (continued below)

Tregoyd Mares and Cholderton Whitethorn, Spring 2002 

As well as breeding Cleveland Bay horses we also have a flock of sheep which are kept for lamb production. These are mostly Texel cross sheep which we find do well even though they have to cope with the height and mainly following the horses around clearing up what’s left of the grazing.
 Having an alternative animal to inter-graze with the horses is an advantage as they eat much of the stale grass that the horses won’t touch. Also we believe that the worm infestation is kept lower because of the inter-grazing. We orignally had sheep to make up some of the financial loss incurred with the Cleveland breeding but now that farming prices are so low it is doubtful they even cover costs.

Two other important members of our family – at least in their eyes – are our Corgie dogs, Twmpa and Dirion. These grand lads who are litter brothers, are named after two of the peaks of the Black Mountains. They think they are sheep dogs and try very hard, especially Dirion, to round up the flock, but Twmpa just wanders about will-nilly undoing all the good that his brother has just done. Twmpa can be found at times just standing in the sheep shed surrounded by the admiring wollies smelling him and he thinks that that is really great.  


Twmpa Hogging the Camera


Dirion

Dirion is the ring leader and if we don’t keep an eye on him, will lead Twmpa astray and be away for hours at a time in the hills and valleys pretending to be hunting for rabbits or squirrels. Both return filthy, exhausted and hungry like two naughty school boys.

Apart from the cat Shipton, named for his explorations, and Gengis the Gander, named for the obvious reasons, and his wife Goose, these are now the only other occupants of our 30 acre smallholding.

 

Thank you for reading this and enjoy your visit. We hope to keep adding to our site and updating on foaling and progeny results so please do call again for the latest.